Time Team covered the Sevso Treasure on (UK) Channel 4 on December 26, 2008 ("The mystery of the Roman treasure"). Channel 4's website has plenty of useful links including a quiz on "the illegal antiquities trade".
As Channel 4 recommends "Looting Matters" in its list of resources to "Find Out More" here are previous postings on the Sevso Treasure:
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Drawing attention to "provenance" at the Met
Courtesy of Christos Tsirogiannis One of largest group of repatriated material from New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art was dervied fr...
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Source: Sotheby's A marble head of Alexander the Great has been seized in New York (reported in " Judge Orders Return of Ancien... -
Tarentine funerary relief Source: Metropolitan Museum of Art The Manhattan DA has provided limited details about the recent return of antiqu...
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If international museums can no longer "own" antiquities either through purchase on the antiquities market or through partage , wh...
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Thank you for the link.
It's very interesting to read about the Seuso treasure here in Hungary.
Unfortunately I rather sceptical that these finds will be ever returned to our country.
I will not be surprised if in ten years we will see them in a new museum in some Gulf country, and still it would not be worst possibility....
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